venter with a more reddish tinge, a median polinose-snowy line on 

 the dorsal surface of the thorax. Head long and rostrated, the tip 

 well-rounded, upper carinae straight, snowy, lower ones very close 

 together and fuscous, the rostrum with exception of the carinae 

 reddish-orange. Eyes black. Antennae short, reddish, at the base a 

 single reddish appendage longer than the antenna, much twisted. 

 Elytra dilated at tip, milky, somewhat hyaline, venation rosy gradually 

 fading out towards the base which is immaculate, interstices clouded, 

 tip of apex in center polinose-snowy, upper margin along the median 

 suture snowy. Wings milky-white, venation rosy, iridescent. Legs 

 pale without markings. 



Length of body 4:30 mm.; length to tip of elytra 9 mm.; elytral 

 expansion 15 mm. 



The writer took eleven adults on the underside of ash 

 leaves in the hammocks at Gainesville, Fla., March 30, 1918, 

 and a single specimen on underside of an ash leaf in low 

 deciduous woods near Tupelo, Miss., July 2, 1921. Dr. C. 

 J. Drake took a specimen sweeping at Gainesville, Fla., 

 July 21, 1918. 



Otiocerus degeerii KIRBY 

 (1819 Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., xiii. p. 16) 



Widely distributed over Ontario and the United States 

 and is the largest and most common species of the genus. 

 Its color varies from pale reddish to brownish purple. 



Fig. 32 Adult Otiocerus degeeri Kirby (original). 



Body red, paler on the upper part. Head long, rostrum acutely 

 produced upwards and red in color; carinae snowy, the upper ones 

 undulate and immaculate, the lower ones transversely striated with 

 black. Antennae reddish, more or less cylindrical, extending to the 

 lower margin of face, with two appendages at the base in both sexes, 

 not quite as large and long as the antennae. Eyes brown. Elytra 

 smoky-hyaline, dilated at apex; venation crimson, the interstices ir- 

 rorate with round dark green spots; the tip of apex polinose-snowy. 

 Wings milky-white, the veins rosy. Legs pale, without markings. 



Males are slightly smaller than the females. 



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